How to install your Windows on AWS?

Question

Amazon Web Services

I want to take a server on AWS to put my Windows there. what they offer solutions is much more expensive due to their included license. Before that, I just took a server with IPMI and installed the system image through it. But in AWS I can not find whether there is such an opportunity.

Answer 1

With a high degree of probability, this will violate the license. Given that aws will have your payment details, there are likely to be significant legal implications.

Answer 2

firstly: it is possible through import VM image
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userg...
secondly: due to the change in virtual hardware, Windows will try to reactivate after import.
AWS has its own KMS server and if activation fails for some reason, the import will, in theory, be faked.
However, on stackoverflow, people also write about successful imports
. AWS has a BYOL program for its licenses, but, as far as I remember, it only applies to Server products, adding your Win10 license is unlikely to work
. So you are unlikely to legally use client versions of Windows on AWS whether it succeeds even if the import succeeds. And illegally - these are quite certain risks, especially since AWS has all your data
PS I would like to add that this is my theoretical knowledge about the issue. Even with server products, it is often easier to make new images (packer, cloud-init) than to transfer what worked for you on another hosting, so I have never dealt with migrating images

Answer 3

for this they can knock on the head

Who exactly and for what?

installation of the user's operating system may be prohibited by the license agreement of the hoster itself and as a punishment they may stop working with you, the machines will be stopped and the contract terminated (and not re-register)
What is an offended hoster I can give an example - for reasons I do not understand hezner in registration new accounts are denied, after verification the account is blocked, the support is stupidly silent and does not respond to any of my messages, despite the fact that registration for my wife from my machine is also blocked ... I am too lazy to fight against ip spoofing and registrations for left people.

There is an assumption

где то 2013 году у меня был аккаунт у них и я майнил криптовалюту Burstcoin (самая первая с proof of capacity с майнингом на жестких дисках) на одной единственной машине с 3 или 4 дисками (т.е. по мелочам) считанные 2-3 месяца. Затем прекратил, само собой все оплачивалось, больше с ними не работал (не требовалось, пользовался услугами других провайдеров), да и вообще не майнил ничего у других провайдеров (это если подумаете что мог купить виртуалку у реселеров)
Чтобы понимали, Burstcoin это не недавний скам Chia, это очень щадящая для оборудования криптовалюта, первичное заполнение - линейная запись на диск на максимуме его скорости, чуть чуть использует процессор, а сам майнинг ресурсы не затрагивал